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The Velocity V-Twin is a four-seat (with a five-seat option), retractable tricycle landing gear, composite construction aircraft with a twin engine pusher configuration and the canard layout of the Velocity XL single engine aircraft. Its fuselage is that of the XL-RG, with the addition of the single, vertical surface which replaces the twin end ...
In 1992, Velocity introduced the "173", also known as the long wing. This model had a longer wing, giving it a lower landing speed. The name was a play on the name of a popular model of Cessna, the Cessna 172, the idea being it is one better. Some flying Velocity planes experienced "deep stall" incidents, where the main wing stalled before the ...
September 11 Terrorist Attacks in photos Spectators look up as the World Trade Center goes up in flames September 11, 2001 in New York City after two airplanes slammed into the twin towers in an ...
Velocity XL-RG Velocity V-Twin Velocity XL-FG Fixed landing gear version with a gross weight of 2,700 lb (1,225 kg). Forty had been completed and flown by December 2011. [1] Velocity XL-FG-5 Fixed landing gear version with a gross weight of 2,900 lb (1,315 kg). Twenty-one had been completed and flown by December 2011. [1] Velocity XL-RG
At 1:44 p.m., a passing Southwest jet was told of an anticipated ocean landing, south of the Farallon Islands, and was asked to "see if they made it out ok." The commercial pilot later replied ...
A light aircraft crashed after taking off from Malta, killing all five people on board in the island nation's worst peacetime air accident.
Communications lost just before atmospheric entry. This was the first manmade object to land on another planet on 1 March 1966 (crash). Probable landing region: -20° to 20° N, 60° to 80° E. — Kosmos 96: 3MV-4 No.6: Atmospheric probe: 23 November 1965 — — Failed to leave Earth orbit and reentered the atmosphere.
Almost 3,000 people lost their lives on that fateful day when two hijacked planes crashed into the Twin Towers. If you've seen any images from 9/11, you're well aware of one thing — those ...